Bogus lecturer

Bogus lecturer

From Pikiran Rakyat

Between the months of June and September 1995 our relatives were visited by a guest who looked smart and sympathetic and carried a shiny briefcase and drove different cars. He said that his name was Dr. H. Moch. Amin Hidayat, SE, and worked at Padjadjaran University as a postgraduate lecturer. He also claimed to be a coordinator of Primajasa Bus in Garut, West Java, and a member of ICMI (Association of Indonesian Moslem Intellectuals) of West Java.

My family was very impressed by his brilliant speech. He then offered to help our unemployed members get a job in an attorney's office and in PT Primajasa. He also said that he had a sister working as head of the attorney's office in Surabaya, East Java named Mrs. Hj. Mimi Barnama, SH.

Convinced by his words, many of our relatives wrote application letters and prepared all the accompanying documents. For all this and for the administrative cost, including the cost of uniforms, training, our relatives submitted Rp 3 million, which was paid in installments. He promised that the letters of appointment would be issued in October 1995.

Day in and day out, my relatives did not get any news from the gentleman. They checked his address only to find that it was a fake address. Both Padjadjaran University and PT Primajasa knew nothing about this man. Finally my relatives realized that they had been cheated. The man was about 45 years old, 155 centimeters tall with bald head and had dark skin. Readers, be warned.

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